Bug#376329: state of #376329

[Dominic Hargreaves]

fixed 376329 5.14.0-1
thanks

On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 01:12:11PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote:
> > Hello Joey,
> > 
> > This bug is currently unreproducible by me. And by you?
> > 
> > Versions of software in my system:
> > 
> > ii  libhtml-scrubber-perl                0.08-4
> > ii  libtext-markdown-perl                1.0.26-1
> 
> No, you need to have the markdown package installed to reproduce this
> bug. Yes, it is still reproducible with
> 
> ii  libhtml-scrubb 0.08-4         Perl extension for scrubbing/sanitizing html
> ii  markdown       1.0.1-7        Text-to-HTML conversion tool
> ii  perl           5.10.1-8       Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and Report
> 
> Given that this bug is so fragile that removing even one line of the testcase
> that should not possibly have any bearing masks it.. Even if the bug stopped
> being reproducible, unless perl had a big changelog entry along the lines of
> "fixed memory corruption problem that resulted in utf8 flag being incorrectly
> set" -- I would assume the bug was still present and only hiding.

I believe this has now been fixed upstream (in 5.14). See
<http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=72398>.
Niko's test script succeeds with 5.14.0-1 from experimental.

Cheers,
Dominic.

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